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Monthly Archives: July 2009
A remarkable summer
[This post was written by Dr. Myron Cohen, our institute director.] By any stretch of the imagination this has been a wonderful summer for global health at UNC, and I feel compelled to share with you some highlights. UNC presented … Read More
Posted in Africa, Asia, China, From the Field, Malawi, Research, Service, Teaching, UNC campus
Tagged Children's Safe Drinking Water Project, Doris Duke International Clinical Research Fellows, EGPAF, Fogar, Fogarty International Center, Greg Allgood, IAS, ISSTDR, Morehead-Cain, Myron Cohen, UNC P, UNC Project
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Global health at its core is human health
[Saumya Ayyagari] In the village that I stayed in while working in Uganda, I observed that people are not afraid to honestly express raw emotion. They love openly, cry openly. This atmosphere was completely different from anything I’d ever experienced, … Read More
Posted in Africa, Uganda, UNC campus
Tagged community, HIV, HIV/AIDS, Saumya, Saumya Ayyagari, Southern U.S., student perspective, Students, U.S. health, Uganda, undergraduates
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IAS 2009 Cape Town
Most of our faculty have now returned from Cape Town, where they were attending the 5th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention. UNC presented over 30 abstracts at the meeting, and you can find a complete … Read More
Posted in Africa, Malawi, Research
Tagged antiretroviral therapy (ART), CDC, Charles van der Horst, conference, Denise Jamieson, HIV, HIV/AIDS, IAS, Kamuzu, Kamuzu Central Hospital, Peter Kazembe, policy
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What does global health mean to me?
[Author Saumya Ayyagari is a junior at UNC-Chapel Hill who is majoring in International Studies with a concentration in Global Health and Environment. She works part-time for the institute.] As I child I dreamed of “fixing” India, the country of … Read More
Posted in Africa, Uganda
Tagged global health education, HIV, HIV/AIDS, poverty, Saumya Ayyagari, service organizations, TB, tuberculosis
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We're in transition
Please excuse us while we make changes (clumsily) to the look of the blog. It’s still us!
Global Health Council blogging from G8 summit
David Olson, the Global Health Council’s Director of Policy Communications, is blogging all this week and sending updates via Twitter from the 2009 G8 Summit in Italy. Olson is participating in the civil society pre-meeting this week in Rome and … Read More
Posted in Events, Global Health Policy
Tagged G8, GHC, Global Health Council, policy
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Uganda's president condemns female genital mutilation and vows to ban the practice
South Africa’s Mail & Guardian reports that Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni will enact a law banning female circumcision, or female genital mutilation. According to a recent United Nations resolution against the practice, between 100 and 140 million women worldwide are … Read More
Posted in Africa, Uganda
Tagged female circumcision, female genital mutilation, United Nations, Yoweri Museveni
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